Rasberry slice

This is one of my fav rasberry slice recipes. Tell me what you think.

You Will Need:

120 g butter

1 egg

120 g sugar

225 g flour

½ tsp vanilla essence

1 tsp baking powder

½ - ¾  cup strawberry jam

Icing:

2 cups icing sugar

¼ tsp butter, softend

2 tbsp hot water (approx)

Few drops raspberry essence

Method:

Heat oven to 180˚ C

Grease slice tin, set aside.

Cream butter and sugar, add vanilla essence.

Add egg then sifted dry ingredients and mix until it forms a stiff dough.

Divide in half.

Roll out both halves to the size of slice tin to about  ½ cm thickness.

Spread strawberry jam generously over the bottom layer.

Place rolled out pastry (second half) on top. (It often breaks so cut top layer into 4 pieces to make it easy to move. Just blend edges together- it won't matter as it's covered by icing.)

Bake for 30 mins, set aside to cool and ice with raspberry icing.

Drag a fork lightly across the top of the icing before it fully sets to create wave patterns on the top.

To make icing:

Sift icing sugar into bowl.

Add butter, and enough water to melt butter and mix to a smooth consistency